Index

Abbott, Jacob, 45, 66, 113

Abbott, John, 101

“About Niggers” (Anon.), 164, 168–69

Account of a Voyage Round the World (Carteret), 172

Adam Bede (Eliot), 62

Addison, Joseph, 59, 98, 129

Adventures in the Pacific (Coulter), 76

Adventures of Harry Franco, The (Briggs), 107

Aggasiz, Louis, 159

Albermarle, Duke of, 85

Alcott, Louisa May, 64

American Whig Review, 65

Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton), 70

Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 189

“Apple-Tree Table, The,” 102, 118, 148–55, 207, 217. See also Franklin, Benjamin; paratexts

Arcturus, 63

Arnold, Matthew, 122

Arrowhead, 1, 21, 27, 28, 73, 207

Astor Place riot, 115, 192

Atlantic Monthly, 209–10, 219

Atlantic Souvenir, The, 61

authorship: anonymous, 13–14, 20, 24, 58, 75–76, 86, 102, 141, 205, 211, 229nn31–32; gendered, 46–48, 60; literary creativity and, 18–19, 30, 39–44, 55, 173; marketized, 46, 48–49, 54; pseudonymous, 13, 66, 70, 74–77, 107, 138, 229n34; writerly struggle and, 20, 26–27, 30, 203. See also embedded authorship

Bachman, John, 159

Bacon, Francis, 160

Barron, Henry, Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion with Spirits, 150–51

“Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 3, 108, 116, 131, 154, 168; first-person narrator, 90–91; genre qualities, 86–89; humor in, 87–88; Melville’s relation to print culture and, 27, 39–41; Occupy and, 205, 216; paper in, 32, 40–44, 54–55; sources, 7, 86. See also post; short story; sketch; tale

Battle Pieces, 207, 213

Baym, Nina, 8, 174

Beecher, Henry Ward, 64

“Bell-Tower, The,” 119–20; Curtis on, 95, 97–98, 129–35; republication, 212–14

“Benito Cereno,” 3, 79, 131; Curtis on, 118–19, 125, 131; ethnology in, 164–69; prospection and stasis, 195–202; as psychological thriller, 190, 200; as reprinted text, 171–72, 190–204; suitability for Putnam’s, 125–27. See also narrative perspective; paratexts; short story

Bennett, James Gordon, 31, 96

Berkshire Hills, 1–2, 31, 148, 185

Berthold, Dennis, 115

Bezanson, Walter, 177–78, 180, 187

Birney, James, 109

Bisco, John, 109

Bleak House (Dickens), 101

Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 120–21

Blum, Hester, 78

Bonner, Robert, 64, 176. See also New York Ledger

Boston Atlas, 142

Boston Evening Traveller, 91

Brattle, Thomas, 155

Brewer, Thomas Mayo, 141–45; “The Smithsonian Institution,” 141–42

Brewster, John, 73–74

Briggs, Charles Frederick, 6, 95, 96; The Adventures of Harry Franco, 107; career, 11, 106–7; “Clearing a Stage,” 212; as editor at Putnam’s, 12, 97, 99; “Elegant Tom Dillar,” 212; The Haunted Merchant, 107, 108, 111; on Margaret Fuller, 108–9; Putnam’s founding editorial and, 107, 110–12, 140; rejection of “The Two Temples,” 107–8, 115–17; The Trippings of Tom Pepper, 107, 109, 110; Working a Passage, 107

Broadway Journal, 106, 108–9, 111

Brook Farm, 111, 120

Brooklyn Union, 107

Brown, Isaac, 107, 115

Brown, Philip, 56, 65

Browne, Thomas, 129

Bryant, John, 84, 172

Bryant, William Cullen, 2, 59, 104

Bulwer Lytton, Edward, 65, 123; Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, 115

Bunce & Harrington, 105

Burrill, James, 123

Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 70

Burton, William Evans, Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor, 211–12

Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, 211

“Cacoethes Scribendi” (Sedgwick), 61, 63

Capron, Eliab, Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion with Spirits, 150–51

Carlyle, Thomas, 10, 26

Carson, David, 31

Carson, Thomas, 38

Carteret, Philip, Account of a Voyage Round the World, 172

Castronovo, Russ, 119–20, 124, 128, 134

“Celestial Railroad, The” (Hawthorne), 140

Century Illustrated Magazine, 210

Chacko, David, 179

Chamberlin, Henry, 31

Chamberlin, Joseph, 31

Chesebrough, Caroline, 113

Child, Lydia Maria, 70; “Elizabeth Wilson,” 62

Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 110

Clark, Willis Gaylord, 59

Clay, Henry, 109

clerks, 86–87; in Harper’s, 93

Clifford, John, 27, 173

Clough, Arthur, “Letters of Parapidemus,” 101, 115

“Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” 58, 154; genre and, 66–72. See also sketch; tale

Collins, Wilkie, The Dead Secret, 209

Confidence-Man, The, 96, 172, 174, 206–9; reviews of, 14

Connecticut Centinal, 179

Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 47

Cooper, James Fenimore, 5; “Old Ironsides,” 74–75; The Red Rover, 139, 151, 170, 189, 211

Cooper, Samuel, 155

copyright, 174–75, 237n12

Cordell, Ryan, 140

Coulter, John, Adventures in the Pacific, 76

Coverly, Nathaniel, 179

Cozzens, Frederick, 96

Craighead, Robert, 3

Crane, Zenas, 31, 33–34

Crania Americana (Morton), 158

Cries of London, The (Smith), 189

Curtis, Benjamin, 29

Curtis, Burrill, 120

Curtis, George William, 7, 59, 79, 104, 111, 139, 148; anti-slavery lectures, 123–24; on “The Bell-Tower,” 95, 97–98, 129–35; on “Benito Cereno,” 119–20, 126–27, 163, 202; career as writer, 11, 120–22; compared to Melville, 121–22; dual role at Harper’s and Putnam’s, 103–6; “The Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times,” 124–25; “Editor’s Easy Chair” at Harper’s, 103, 128; editorship at Putnam’s, 12, 95, 106, 116, 118, 180; family background, 120; financial investment in Putnam’s, 208–9; The Howadji in Syria, 103, 120; literary judgement, 124–25; Lotus-Eating, 121; Nile Notes of a Howadji, 95, 103, 120, 130; picturesque tradition and, 128; The Potiphar Papers, 114, 123, 212; Prue and I, 101, 114, 121, 213–14; publishing advice on Melville, 207–8; publishing advice to William Douglas O’Connor, 104–6; reviews Israel Potter, 180–81; Trumps, 123; uses Bartleby as a character, 121; Washington Irving, 211

Cuyler, Theodore, 143

Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (Burton), 211–12

Dalton, Massachusetts: Melville’s visit to, 1–2, 21, 30; paper mills in, 30–32

Dana, Charles A., 97, 100, 180, 213

Dana, Richard Henry, 120

Darwin, Charles, 77–78, 84, 85, 169; The Origin of Species, 169; The Voyage of the “Beagle,” 77, 85

Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil (Willis), 59

Dead Secret, The (Collins), 209

Defoe, Daniel, 59

Delano, Amasa, 163–65; Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, 171, 190, 192–93

Democratic Review, 63

Derrida, Jacques, 26, 39, 45

Dewey, Rodney H., 136

Dexter, George T., Spiritualism, 150

Dickens, Charles, 62, 65, 87, 113, 123; Bleak House, 101; clerks in, 87; Household Words, 118; “Hunted Down,” 64; Sketches by Boz, 75; sketch tradition and, 44, 72, 74, 89

Dillingham, William, 8

Dimock, Wai-Chee, 216

diptychs, 72–73, 228n26

Disraeli, Benjamin, 123

“Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority, The” (Douglas), 113, 232n39

Dix, Joshua, 79, 95–96, 98, 117–19

Dix & Edwards, 96, 118, 124, 138, 191, 207–9; books published, 15; purchase of Putnam’s, 100, 105, 117, 180. See also Putnam’s Monthly Magazine

Dollimore, Jonathan, 18

Douglas, Stephen A., “The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority,” 113, 232n39

Douglass, Frederick, 159; The Heroic Slave, 192

Dowgray, John, 112

Dowling, David, 18, 47, 54

Dream Life (Mitchell), 103

Dred (Stowe), 62

“Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times, The” (Curtis), 124–25

Duyckinck, Evert, 50, 63, 115, 213; on Irving’s influence on Melville, 64; lampooned by Briggs, 109, 111; Melville’s letters to, 2, 4, 9

Duyckinck, George, 213

Dwight, Timothy, Travels in New England and New York, 149

Eaton, Joseph, 214

Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, 77

Edmonds, John Worth, Spiritualism, 150

Edwards, Arthur, 97, 117–18, 208

Edwards, Mary Bercaw, 172

electromagnetism, 141–52

Eliot, George, 57, 75; infanticide in Adam Bede, 62

“Elizabeth Wilson” (Child), 62

Elliott, Harrison, 30

embedded authorship, 15, 17; definition, 8–13; innovation and, 215–16; Melville’s, 19–23, 25, 30, 53–55, 171–75, 203–4

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 5, 104, 120

Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly, 209

Emerson’s United States Magazine, 209

Emery, Allan, 143

“Encantadas, The,” 63, 102, 154, 168–69; “Elizabeth Wilson” and, 63; genre in, 72–85; paratextual status, 137–39; “Tortoise Hunting Adventure” and, 73–74. See also narrative perspective; short story; sketch

“Escorted Lady, The” (Leslie) 61

ethnology and ethnography, 155–69

Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion with Spirits (Capron and Barron), 150–51

Fable for Critics, A (Lowell), 111

Faraday, Michael, 143

Felski, Rita, 19

Fern, Fanny, 7, 61, 177; Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio, 59

Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (Fern), 59

“Fiddler, The,” 58, 85

Field, D. D., A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, 149

Fields, James T., 111

Fisher, Marvin, 8, 31, 66, 75

Fourdrinier papermaking machine, 33–34

Fox, George, 161–62

Fox, John, 151

Fox sisters, 149–51

Franco, Harry. See Briggs, Charles Frederick

Franklin, Benjamin: in “The Apple-Tree Table,” 151–55; in Israel Potter, 146–48, 178, 187; in “The Lightning-Rod Man,” 141–45; paper and paper mills, 37

Fraser’s Magazine, 77

Fremont, John, 123

Friends’ Review, 76

Fuller, Margaret, 98, 108, 120, 128; Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 108

Fuller, Wayne, 38

Garcha, Amanpal, 81

Gardner, Jared, 75

Garrison, William Lloyd, 109, 110

“’Gees, The,” 155–63, 168–69, 207; ethnology in, 161–63. See also paratexts

Genealogies of the Potter Families and Their Descendants in America (Potter), 190

Genette, Gérard, 137, 139, 140, 149

genre: Hawthorne’s impact on, 60; magazine conventions, 13, 58; Melville’s adaptations of, 58, 85–94; Poe’s impact on, 60; unclear boundaries of, 56–57. See also short story; sketch; tale

Gliddon, George, 156–59; Types of Mankind, 156–60

Godey’s Lady’s Book, 58, 60, 91; Melville in, 4, 209

Godwin, Parke, 7, 96, 100, 116, 123, 158; political views, 125–26, 233n57

Goldsmith, Oliver, 59, 62

Good Gray Poet, The (O’Connor), 104

G. P. Putnam & Co., 180, 189

Grace Church, New York, 107

Graham, George R., 65

Graham’s Magazine, 60, 65, 179, 211

Greeley, Horace, 31, 121

Greenspan, Ezra, 102

Greylock, Geoffrey, 28

Hale, Sarah Josepha, 60

Hall, James, Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West, 172

Hamilton, Kristie, 65

“Happy Failure, The,” 58, 85

Harper, Fletcher, 95, 99, 103, 105–6, 113

Harper & Brothers 2, 5, 29, 73, 102, 104, 106, 112, 121

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 2, 5, 227n4; characteristics compared to Putnam’s, 99–103; clerks in, 93; factory tours in, 44–45; Galapagos Islands in, 76; as national magazine, 112–14; New York Times on, 24; production standards, 64–65, 232n40; sentimental fiction in, 66–67; science and, 161

Haunted Merchant, The (Briggs) 107

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 2, 4, 5, 104; The Blithedale Romance, 120–21; “The Celestial Railroad,” 140; first-person narrators, 90; The Isle of the Cross and, 27; letters from Melville, 13, 15, 21–23; “The Minster’s Black Veil,” 79; on Moby-Dick, 21; The Scarlet Letter and, 180; “Young Goodman Brown,” 206. See also genre

Hawthorne, Sophia, 29

“Hawthorne and his Mosses,” 64, 131–32, 218

Henkin, David, 36–37

Henry, Joseph, 142–44

Heroic Slave, The (Douglass), 192

Hillard, O. G., and Melville obituary, 16–17

historicist criticism, 17–18

History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, A (Field), 149

Hoadley, John, 68

Hoffman, E. T. A, 59

Holden’s Dollar Magazine, 13, 50, 106

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 2

Housatonic River, 1–2, 185

Household Words (Dickens), 118

Howadji in Syria, The (Curtis), 103, 120

Howells, William Dean, 219

Hubbel, Mary, 65

Hunt, Edward Bissell, 142

“Hunted Down” (Dickens), 64

Hurlbut, Thomas, 38

Hutchinson, Ellen M., Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, 213–14

“I and My Chimney,” 119, 149, 207; Curtis on, 119, 125

Idiot, The, 179

Independent, 107

Irving, Washington, 83, 89, 126; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” 59, 81, 180; Melville on, 64; “Rip Van Winkle,” 59, 180; reputation, 63; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 75, 81, 170, 176, 189; sketch tradition and, 44, 59

Isle of the Cross, The, 5, 27, 45, 173

Israel Potter, 102, 117, 149, 196, 202; book preface, 187–89; departure from Trumbull’s narrative, 178–79, 181; gestation, 173–74, 177–78; Melville’s description of, 57; Putnam’s review, 180–81; published by Dix & Edwards, 15; as reprinted text, 171–90. See also Franklin, Benjamin; narrative perspective; paratexts

Jackson, Leon: social disembedding, 8–10; historicist criticism and, 17

James, G. P. R., 67, 101

James, Henry, 188, 219

Jewett, Charles Coffin, 142

“Jimmy Rose,” 149, 215

John Marr and Other Sailors, 210–11; review, 14

Johnson, Rossiter, Little Classics, 212–13

Johnson, Samuel, 98

Johnson, Theodore, 65

Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (Porter), 172

Karcher, Carolyn, 156–57

Kemble, Fanny, 2

Kendall, Charles, 209

Kime, Wayne R., 129

Kingsley, Charles, 123

Knickerbocker, 63, 64, 106, 109–10

“Knocker, The” (O’Connor), 106

Kulcsar, Alexander, 179

Lawyer’s Story, The (Maitland), 7, 86, 92, 171, 173

“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 59, 81, 180

Leslie, Eliza, 65; “The Escorted Lady,” 61; Pencil Sketches, 59; “The Travelling Tin-man,” 60

“Letters of Parapidemus” (Clough), 101, 115

Lever, Charles, 65

Levine, Robert S., 183–84, 188, 192

Leyda, Jay, 31

Liberator, 109

Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Stedman and Hutchinson), 213–14

Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (Trumbull), 171–72, 178, 184–86, 188, 190

“Lightning-Rod Man, The,” 116; electricity in, 144–46, 148; republication, 211; source for, 149; “The Travelling Tin-man” and, 63. See also Franklin, Benjamin; paratexts

Lilly, Thomas, 113

Lind, Jenny, 115

Literary World, The, 63, 139, 150

Little Classics (Johnson), 212–13

Living Age, The, 76

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 2, 5, 64, 104

Lossing, Benson J., 113

Lotus-Eating (Curtis), 121

Loughran, Trish, 15, 197–98

L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 164

Low De Vinne, Theodore, 210–11

Lowell, James Russell, 110; A Fable for Critics, 111

Lupton, Christina, 32, 53

Mackenzie, Henry, 62

Macready, Charles, 115

magazines: digitization and emphasis on reading 6; in the 1850s, 5–6, 24, 58, 71, 224n1; market strategies, 64–65; miscellaneous nature, 58, 71. See also individual magazine titles

Magnalia Christi Americana (Mather), 149

Maitland, James, The Lawyer’s Story, 7, 86, 92, 171, 173

Mardi, 122, 129

Marvel, Ik. See Mitchell, Donald G.

Marx, Leo, 39, 44

materiality: context and, 7, 18; of Melville’s relation to writing, 1–3, 10–11, 20, 22–23, 84, 188–89; of print culture, 11–12, 25–26, 139; of Putnam’s, 6–7, 209

Mather, Cotton, Magnalia Christi Americana, 149, 153

Mathews, Cornelius, 57, 63, 115; lampooned by Briggs, 109, 111

Matthews, Joshua, 143

Matthiessen, F. O., 122

McClay, Wilfred, 122

McGaw, Judith, 33, 35

McGill, Meredith: on Harper’s and Putnam’s, 102–3; historicist criticism and, 17–18; on reprinting, 5–7, 174–75, 191

McLaughlin, Kevin, 32, 45

Melville, Allan (brother), 187, 208

Melville, Augusta (sister), 31, 69, 74, 187

Melville, Catherine (sister), 74

Melville, Elizabeth (wife), 1, 16, 27–29

Melville, Frances (sister), 1

Melville, Gansevoort (brother), 28, 41

Melville, Helen (sister), 31, 74

Melville, Herman: afterlife of magazine writing, 206, 211–14; on Curtis, 122; as editor, 11, 17, 171–204; income from writing, 2, 12, 73, 177, 223n17; lecture circuit, 121–22, 210; literary market and, 15–16, 46–49, 54, 84; longevity of work, 17–19, 91–92, 164–65, 205, 214–18; mother’s concern over, 28; newspaper juvenilia, 57; non-literary jobs, 16, 27, 41, 121; paper and, 22–23, 32, 41; print mediators and, 10, 210–11; reception and reputation, 14–17, 26–29, 96–97, 216, 223n18; sketches for Yankee Doodle, 57–58, 227n3. See also individual titles of works

Melville, Maria (mother), 1, 28

Miller, John, 100, 209

Miller, Perry, 108, 115

Miller & Curtis, 209

Milton, John, 125

“Minister’s Black Veil, The” (Hawthorne), 79

Miss Leslie’s Magazine, 60

Mitchell, Donald G. (Ik Marvel), 59, 103–4; Dream Life, 103; Reveries of a Bachelor, 103–4

Mitford, Mary Russell, 44

Moby-Dick, 4, 122, 172, 199, 205, 214–15; paper and, 37–38; the post and, 37; publishing of, 2–3, 54, 221n2

Morse, Samuel, 143–44, 151

Morton, Samuel, Crania Americana, 158–59

Mott, Frank Luther, 103

Mumford, Lewis, 8

Murray, John, 85

Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Delano), 171, 190, 192–93

narrative perspective, 72, 156; in “Benito Cereno,” 163–69, 194–95, 200; in “The Encantadas,” 77–85; gentleman narrator, 59, 68, 86, 91; in Israel Potter, 181–83; in “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” 51–54

National Era, 76

Neal, John, 120

Newbury, Michael, 46, 54

Newcomes, The (Thackeray), 67

Newhouse, Anthony, 37

New York Citizen, 179

New York Commercial Advertiser, 179

“New-York Daguerreotyped” (Anon.), 86, 108, 114

New York Herald, 31, 96

New York Ledger, 176; payment to authors, 64

New York Times, 16, 24, 86

New York Tribune, 31, 86, 121

Nile Notes of a Howadji (Curtis), 95, 104

Nott, Josiah, 156–60, 169; Types of Mankind, 156–60

O’Brien, Fitz-James, 85, 113; Putnam’s essay on Curtis and Melville, 122–23, 124, 214; Putnam’s essay on Melville, 29, 44, 86, 129, 132, 134; Putnam’s essay on Mitchell, 103–4

O’Connor, George William, 181

O’Connor, William Douglas, 96, 104, 121; The Good Gray Poet, 104; “The Knocker,” 106; “What Cheer,” 105, 126

“Old Ironsides” (Cooper), 74–75

Olmstead, Frederick Law, 100, 117, 118, 123, 180, 208–9

Omoo, 2, 122, 156

Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 169

O’Sullivan, John Louis, 63

Otter, Samuel, 8

paper: Carlyle on, 26; fine quality, 32, 38–39; manufacture of, 1–3, 22–23, 31–37; postal service and, 37–38; rag supply, 37–39. See also “Bartleby, the Scrivener”; “Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, The”

“Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, The,” 2, 24–25, 72, 215–16; allegory in, 46–48; “Cacoethes Scribendi” and, 63; paper and papermaking in, 20, 26, 31, 33–38, 42, 45, 48 51, 53–55, 84, 189; print culture and, 49, 54–55. See also narrative perspective

paratexts, 136–41, 235n5; in “The Apple-Tree Table,” 150–55; in “Benito Cereno,” 163–69; in “The ’Gees,” 156–63; in Israel Potter, 141–43, 235n7; in “The Lightning-Rod Man,” 141–43

Parker, Hershel, 16, 74, 141, 187; on Melville after Pierre, 27–29, 31

Pearce, James, 144

Pencil Sketches (Leslie), 59

Perkins, Frederick Beecher, 95, 100, 158

Perry, Matthew, 160–61

Peterson, T. B., 189

Phegley, Jennifer, 113

Philleo, Calvin, 66

“Piazza, The,” 207

Piazza Tales, The, 91, 96, 119, 138–39, 207; removal of attribution to “The Encantadas,” 75; review of, 163; titling of, 57

picturesque tradition, 122, 128, 234n64

Pidgeon, Daniel, 33

Pierre, 5, 10, 74, 91, 122; reception, 14, 27–29

Pioneer; or California Monthly Magazine, The, 76

plagiarism, 173–75

Poe, Edgar Allan, 7, 91, 104, 106, 190; Broadway Journal and, 109; as editor, 10–11, 206; first-person narrators, 90; “The Purloined Letter,” 79

Polk, James, 109

“Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs,” 72, 211

Porter, David, Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, 172

post: postal reform, 36–37; post office in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 41–42

Post-Lauria, Sheila, 69, 102, 178

Potiphar Papers, The (Curtis), 114, 123, 212

Potter, Charles Edward, Genealogies of the Potter Families and Their Descendants in America, 190

Price, Leah, 3

Prime, William Cowper, 67

Providence Journal, 104

Prue and I (Curtis), 101, 114, 121, 213–14

“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe), 79

Putnam, George Palmer, 5, 10, 57, 65, 78, 99, 142, 177, 189; editorship and ownership of Putnam’s, 97, 100, 102, 105, 180; rejects “The Two Temples,” 114–17. See also Putnam’s Monthly Magazine; Wiley & Putnam

Putnam’s Monthly Magazine: American content, 65, 78, 99; bankruptcy, 208–9; characteristics compared to Harper’s, 99–103; cosmopolitanism of, 115–16; founding, 5–7; founding editorial, 79, 87, 107, 110–12; letters from potential contributors, 56; New York City as subject, 114; New York Times on, 24; ownership and management, 100, 117–18; science in, 78–79. See also Briggs, Charles Frederick; Curtis, George William; Putnam, George Palmer

Quincy, Edmund, Wensley, 101

Raymond, Henry, 12, 95

Redburn, 2

Red Rover, The (Cooper), Melville’s review of, 139, 151, 170, 189, 211

Renker, Elizabeth, 27

reprinting, 5–7, 18, 21, 77, 140; in Harper’s, 44, 65, 99–100, 103, 130, 161; surrogate reprinting, 171, 175, 203; unauthorized reprinting, 189. See also “Benito Cereno”; Israel Potter

Reveries of a Bachelor (Mitchell), 103

Reynolds, David S., 171, 175

Rice, Alexander, 209

Richards, T. Addison, 160

Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy (Bulwer Lytton), 115

Ripley, George, 213

“Rip Van Winkle” (Irving), 59, 180

“Rip Van Winkle’s Lilac,” 64

Rothschild, Ida, 132

Salem Register, 211

Salmagundi, 59

Sampson & Low, 115

Santayana, George, 122

Sawaya, Francesca, 9

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 2, 60; “Cacoethes Scribendi,” 61

sentimental fiction, 61–62, 66–70, 101–2, 122–23, 178–79, 215

serialization, 139, 176–77, 190–91, 197–98, 202, 237n14

Seward, William, 76

Shaw, Anna, 123

Shaw, Francis George, 123, 208

Shaw, Lemuel, 4, 27, 28, 57, 192, 207–8

short story, 13, 20, 71–72; “Bartleby, the Scrivener” as, 89–94; development of, 57, 59–60, 212–13, 218, 227n10; “The Encantadas” as, 81–82; sketch and tale and, 60–62

sketch: in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 88–89; in “Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” 67; development of, 59–61; in Dickens, 89; in “The Encantadas,” 74–76, 78–82; in Harper’s, 70–71

Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The (Irving), 75, 81, 171, 176, 189

Sketches by Boz (Dickens), 75; “I and My Chimney” and, 127

Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West (Hall), 172

Smith, John Thomas, The Cries of London, 189

Smith, Matthew Hale, 107

“Smithsonian Institution, The” (Brewer), 141–43

Smytthe, J., Jr., 101

Southworth, E. D. E. N., 7, 61, 64, 158, 177

Spanos, William, 8

Spiritualism (Edmonds and Dexter), 150

spiritualism, 149–55

“Spiritual Materialism” (Anon.), 149–53

Stedman, Edmund C., Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, 213–14

Steele, Richard, 59

Sterne, Laurence, Tristram Shandy, 70

Stewart, Charles, Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, during the Years 1829 and 1830, 172

Stewart, Tertullus, 27, 73–74, 207

Stone, David M., 65

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 61, 64, 218–19; infanticide in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred, 62

Street, Alfred Billings, 27

Strother, David Hunter, 70–71, 113

Sturges, Samuel, 38

Swann, Charles, 198

Swift, Jonathan, 59

tale: in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 89–94; in “Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” 70; development of, 57, 59–62; in Poe, 190–91

Tanyol, Denise, 77

Taylor, Zachary, 57–58

telegraph, 143, 151, 160

Thackeray, William, 65, 113, 124; The Newcomes, 67; sketch tradition and, 44, 72, 74

Thoreau, Henry David 5, 120

Ticknor, William, 10

Timoleon, 211

Toal, Catherine, 203

Todorov, Tzvetan, 190, 194, 198

“Travelling Tin-man, The” (Leslie), 60

Travels in New England and New York (Dwight), 149

Trinity Church, New York, 107

Trippings of Tom Pepper, The (Briggs), 107, 109

Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 70

Trow, John, 7

Trumbull, Henry, 179; The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, 171–72, 178, 184–86, 188, 190

Trumps (Curtis), 123

Turgenev, Ivan, 57

Twain, Mark, 75

“Two Temples, The,” 72–73, 192; rejection by Putnam’s, 107–8, 114–17, 177

Typee, 2, 3, 122, 129, 156, 199; sources, 172; writing of, 41

Types of Mankind (Nott and Gliddon), 156–60; Harper’s reviews, 159–60; Putnam’s review, 158–59

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 62, 218

Underwood, Francis, 75

Valente, A. J., 31, 33

“Virginian Canaan, The” (Strother), 70–71

Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, during the Years 1829 and 1830 (Stewart), 172

Voyage of the “Beagle,” The (Darwin), 77, 85

Washington Irving (Curtis), 211

Weinstein, Cindy, 47

Wensley (Quincy), 101

Western Literary Messenger, 211

“What Cheer” (O’Connor), 105, 126

Whig Review, 7

White-Jacket, 2, 129, 151, 192

Whitman, Walt, 104

Wilder, Eve, 56, 65

Wiley & Putnam, 63, 78

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 65; Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil, 59

Winter, Aaron, 35

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 108

Working a Passage (Briggs), 107

Yankee Doodle, 58, 227n3

Young, Philip, 31

Young America, 109–10